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Miriam Miranda, long-time general coordinator of OFRANEH, and widely respected land, human rights, environmental defender.
Fisherpeople return home at sunset, along Garifuna lands of Honduras’ northern Caribbean coast.
Alfredo Lopez, a Garifuna community leader who spent over 6 years as a political prisoner in Honduran jails.
March of the drums, invoking the strength and wisdom of Garifuna ancestors.
March of the drums.
March of the drums.
Randy Jorgensen, the Canadian “porn king” (on left), with his friend Pepe Lobo (on right), who became president of Honduras in the November 2009 violent, fraudulent elections soon after the U.S. and Canadian-backed coup ousted Honduras last democratic government. Jorgensen is involved in numerous violent, corrupt tourism industry businesses on ancestral Garifuna lands. Lobo and his son Fabian are linked to organized crime, drug traffickers.
Cover of MacLean’s magazine that reported on Randy Jorgensen’s – the Canadian “porn king” – hard-core pornography businesses in Canada in the 1990s, before Jorgensen moved to the north shore of Honduras in the 2000s to initiate numerous corrupt, repressive tourism enterprises on ancestral Garifuna lands.
Maria Digna Montero, a Garifuna teacher and land defender, was shot dead in her home in October 2019 – one of hundreds of Garifuna people killed and disappeared in recent years.
Vidal Leiva (on right), a Garifuna land defender, was shot three times in an assassination attempt on November 27, 2015 … and survived.
“The capitalist system and model has always tried to destroy our mutual support communities, the fact that we grow our plantains in our communities, that we have our own lands where we grow our crops year round. This is what they want to destroy, so that we become capitalist consumers.” (Miriam Miranda)
Cemetery of the Garifuna community of Barra Vieja, under violent, corrupt siege by the international tourism industry supported by the military-backed, drug-trafficking regime of Honduras.
Barra Vieja Garifuna community.